Shay Carl Butler (born March 5, 1980), known professionally as Shay Carl, is an American vlogger and YouTube personality. Butler has five YouTube channels, two of which ("shaycarl" and "SHAYTARDS") have over two million subscribers. Butler and ApprenticeEh are currently developing a documentary called "Vlogumentary" on a $200,000+ budget that was funded with an Indiegogo campaign and raised by mostly his viewers.Forbes called Butler one of the "most successful video entrepreneurs on YouTube" and in 2011 The New York Times featured Butler's production company Maker Studios.

Shay Carl Butler was born on March 5, 1980, in Logan, Utah to Carl and Laurie Butler. At the age of four, the family moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where his father attended school for electrical engineering. After his father graduated, the family moved to Pocatello, Idaho. After graduating from high school, Butler served a full-time, two year mission to Barbados, Trinidad and Guyana with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He briefly attended Idaho State University, but dropped out to start working on his own. Prior to his activities on YouTube, Butler installed granite countertops for a living and worked as a school bus driver. He also worked as a radio DJ for Z103.Butler became more popular on YouTube after Philip DeFranco had watched one of his videos and gave him a shout-out. The shout-out resulted in a rise of Butler's subscribers and also in a friendship between him and DeFranco. By working with other YouTubers at The Station, Butler more than quadrupled his subscription base. Butler later joined the YouTube Partner Program and co-founded Maker Studios. In November 2009, he collaborated with Midi Mafia to create a flash mob at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. In 2009, Butler's "SHAYTARDS" channel won "Best YouTube Channel or Personality" at Mashable's 3rd annual Open Web Awards. In 2013, the same channel was one of the nominees in the "Best Non-Fiction or Reality Serie

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Update 5/14/2013 2:50 PM: It’s been brought to our attention that Shaycarl and Smosh were actually getting together not to work on a future collaboration, but instead to film for Shaycarl’s upcoming documentary “I’m Vlogging Here.” It may not ...

Can’t hide anymore. Can’t continue to fill this shame bucket anymore. Can’t wait for forgiveness anymore. — shaycarl (@shaycarl) November 8, 2017 While it’s unclear when and if YouTube’s Shaytards will ever make a comeback, Shay has been ...

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